A majority of member governments tells us what we owe, on pain of losing our vote in U.N. governing bodies if we don’t pay up.

Using America’s money as an existential threat will rock the U.N. system.

Funding for U.N. components falls into two categories: mandatory 'assessed' contributions and voluntary contributions.

Donald Trump will cause a lot of damage. The only thing he cares about is Donald Trump.

I think he's dangerous enough. He shouldn't get a second term.

We know one thing for sure, Trump never loses. And so if he's not declared the winner of 2024 as in 2020, it must be because he was treated unfairly yet again.

Israel's response – and there should be a response – should not be proportionate. It should be far stronger because when deterrence fails to reestablish it you have to teach the adversary that any gain they may hope to get by any future…

he has no interest in a second term of defending Taiwan from a potential Chinese invasion.

NATO would be in real jeopardy. I think he would try to get out.

I just don't think he has enough of a brain to have an articulated view on U.S. China policy because he thinks everything through the prism of how does this benefit Donald Trump.

I think this case has a problem that the classified documents case really does not, and that is the question of what Trump's state of mind actually was and what he knew, purported to know about the election, and what his intentions were.

The First Amendment does not apply to conspiracies to violate the law, and Smith tries to show in the indictment itself that he is not going after freedom of speech, so I think that will fail.